Lucius Cornelius Lentulus (probably Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Cruscellio) (fl. 1st century BC) was a

suffect consul The consuls were the highest elected public officials of the Roman Republic ( to 27 BC). Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the ''cursus honorum''an ascending sequence of public offices to which politicians aspire ...

in 38 BC, in the late

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A member of the Patrician

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, Cruscellio was the son of

Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus (before 97 BC48 BC) was Consul of the Roman Republic in 49 BC, an opponent of Caesar and supporter of Pompeius in the Civil War during 49 to 48 BC. Family and political career Born sometime before 97 BC, son of a P ...

. From September 20 through to October 23, 54 BC, he was the prosecutor who brought charges under the ''

Lex Cornelia de maiestate The ''Lex Cornelia de maiestate'' was a Roman law passed by Sulla during his dictatorship from 81 to 80 BC using the tribune Cornelius. The law, relating to the control of governors and their forces in the provinces, stated among other things tha ...

'' against

Aulus Gabinius Aulus Gabinius ( – 48 or 47 BC) was a politician and general of the Roman Republic. He had an important career, culminating with a consulship in 58 BC, mainly thanks to the patronage of Pompey. His name is mostly associated with the '' le ...

, the ex-consul of 58 BC. In 44 BC, he was possibly elected to the office of

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, and he was one of those who declared that the

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’s allotment of provinces for the following year (during the meeting of November 28, 44 BC) was not binding. Probably as a result of his father's support for

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during the civil war, Cruscellio was

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by the ruling '' triumvirs''. Therefore, in 42 BC, he fled to

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. Sextus gave him a naval command as a

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, probably a ''legatus pro praetore''. Probably after the

Pact of Misenum The Pact of Misenum was a treaty to end the naval blockade of the Italian Peninsula during the war between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. Signed in 39 BC, the triumvirs allowed Sextus Pompeius to retain his control of Sicily and S ...

in 39 BC, Cruscellio became reconciled to the triumvirs, and became a supporter of

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. As a result, he was appointed

in 38 BC, replacing Appius Claudius Pulcher.Broughton, pg. 390 Cruscellio was married to

Sulpicia Sulpicia is believed to be the author, in the first century BCE, of six short poems (some 40 lines in all) written in Latin which were published as part of the corpus of Albius Tibullus's poetry (poems 3.13-18). She is one of the few female poets ...

, and may have been the father of Lucius Cornelius Lentulus, consul in 3 BC.

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* Broughton, T. Robert S., ''The Magistrates of the Roman Republic'', Vol. II (1951) {{DEFAULTSORT:Cornelius Lentulus Cruscellio, Lucius 1st-century BC Roman consuls Senators of the Roman Republic Cruscellio, Lucius Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Ancient Roman patricians

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